Warner Mifflins Memorial
Download Warner Mifflins Memorial full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online free Warner Mifflins Memorial ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Writings of Warner Mifflin
Author | : Warner Mifflin |
Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 613 |
Release | : 2021-05-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1644531860 |
In The Writings of Warner Mifflin: Forgotten Quaker Abolitionist of the Revolutionary Era Gary B. Nash and Michael R. McDowell present the correspondence, petitions and memorials to state and federal legislative bodies, semi-autobiographical essays, and other materials of the key figure in the U.S. abolitionist movement between the end of the American Revolution and the Jefferson presidency. Virtually unknown to Americans—schoolbooks ignore him, academic historians barely nod at him; the public knows him not at all--Mifflin has been brought to life in Gary B. Nash’s recent biography, Warner Mifflin: Unflinching Quaker Abolitionist (2017). This volume provides an array of insights into the mind of a conscience-bound pacifist Quaker who became instrumental in making Kent County, Delaware a bastion of free blacks liberated from slavery and a seedbed of a reparationist doctrine that insisted that enslavers owed “restitution” to manumitted Africans and their descendants. Mifflin's writings also show how he became the most skilled lobbyist of the antislavery campaigners who haunted the legislative chambers of North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, and Pennsylvania as well as the halls of the Continental Congress and the First and Second Federal Congresses. An opening introduction and introductions to each of the five chronologically arranged parts of the book provide context for the documents and a narrative of the life of this remarkable American.
Warner Mifflin
Author | : Gary B. Nash |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2017-07-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 081229436X |
Warner Mifflin—energetic, uncompromising, and reviled—was the key figure connecting the abolitionist movements before and after the American Revolution. A descendant of one of the pioneering families of William Penn's "Holy Experiment," Mifflin upheld the Quaker pacifist doctrine, carrying the peace testimony to Generals Howe and Washington across the blood-soaked Germantown battlefield and traveling several thousand miles by horse up and down the Atlantic seaboard to stiffen the spines of the beleaguered Quakers, harried and exiled for their neutrality during the war for independence. Mifflin was also a pioneer of slave reparations, championing the radical idea that after their liberation, Africans in America were entitled to cash payments and land or shared crop arrangements. Preaching "restitution," Mifflin led the way in making Kent County, Delaware, a center of reparationist doctrine. After the war, Mifflin became the premier legislative lobbyist of his generation, introducing methods of reaching state and national legislators to promote antislavery action. Detesting his repeated exercise of the right of petition and hating his argument that an all-seeing and affronted God would punish Americans for "national sins," many Southerners believed Mifflin was the most dangerous man in America—"a meddling fanatic" who stirred the embers of sectionalism after the ratification of the Constitution of 1787. Yet he inspired those who believed that the United States had betrayed its founding principles of natural and inalienable rights by allowing the cancer of slavery and the dispossession of Indian lands to continue in the 1790s. Writing in beautiful prose and marshaling fascinating evidence, Gary B. Nash constructs a convincing case that Mifflin belongs in the Quaker antislavery pantheon with William Southeby, Benjamin Lay, John Woolman, and Anthony Benezet.
Political History of the United States
Author | : John Bach McMaster |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 1891 |
Genre | : United States |
ISBN | : |
The Congressional Globe
Author | : United States. Congress |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 680 |
Release | : 1851 |
Genre | : United States |
ISBN | : |
Annals of the Congress of the United States
Author | : United States. Congress |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 766 |
Release | : 1849 |
Genre | : United States |
ISBN | : |
The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States
Author | : United States. Congress |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 750 |
Release | : 1849 |
Genre | : United States |
ISBN | : |